Do you ever worry about forever, about the fact that time never stops?
I currently feel like I’m going to throw up; I am worrying so much about the thought of an infinite time continuum. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Think of a line that keeps going. Never ends. Never. That’s time, and with a universe or not, it’s going to keep going on. Forever.
fuck forever. It’s so scary, so unknown, and I’m so afraid of it. I’m not sure why, i just can’t think of how horrible it is for something to have no end. It’s so so so so terrifying and i feel physically sick from worrying about it.
I worry, yet there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s inevitable. And even if there’s an eternal afterlife, that’s not any better. I would not want to live forever…. that’s even scarier than being dead forever.
God, I’m shaking right now I’m so afraid.
Do any of you guys also deal with this fear? And do you guys have any words of comfort right now, because I could really use some please
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My first panic attack was over infinity. I know how terrifying the thought can be. I’m sorry you are stuck in it right now. I believe whatever death brings, it will at least not be something we carry over our current perceptions into. I don’t think that concept will mean what we think it does right now. Death is probably the one beautiful gift keeping me alive. Irionicly. I look forward to it, though not really to the act of dying no matter how much I want to sometimes. There is an end to this – and a start to something else. It’s the one thing everyone shares and a mystery that can not be solved. I am kept just a bit calmer knowing Infinity can’t get to me forever…and confident I won’t understand it the same way on the other side.
“That’s time, and with a universe or not, it’s going to keep going on. Forever.”
How can you know that? Time as far as we know only exists in our universe.
How can you know time won’t end?
Infinity is a really tough concept, I don’t know if any of us can really understand it. We tend to think of “infinite time” as “a really long time” but that’s not it either. The best way I can visualize infinity is like a circular path. Walking west forever.
The thing about infinite time is that, much like the surface of the earth if you keep walking west, things change and that’s what keeps it interesting. If you were walking in a straight line forever across a barren desert then it would definitely be terrifying, and maybe that’s how you’re imagining time. But in reality, you’ll walk through deserts, forests, oceans, cities and thing which are themselves constantly changing.
You’ll die, and your consciousness will take another form (whether it’s another organic lifeform or just a bunch of energy quarks and particles drifting through space). Your perception of the universe, if perception persists, will keep changing and the universe will reinvent itself to you. When I think of infinite time this way, it seems a lot more interesting than the boring state of nonexistence where nothing changes because there’s nothing there.
I dunno, some days infinity seems pretty cool. Other days it’s terrifying. See? It changes 😉
Thank you for the reply : )